After I posted about charity the other day, I considered that Faithhacker aims to be a “guide to practical spirituality.” Which means (to me) that whenever possible, I should try to offer you tips— concrete solutions and ideas on how to live a more interesting/meaningful/useful Jewish life.
And I hope that when you have tips of your own, you’ll share!
Charity seems a subject that’s particularly good for concrete tips. Money-saving and money-spending are things we have the ability (with lots of limitations of course) to control. And many of us face the same issues with regard to money. The same contexts, the same weaknesses. We all spend more on Thai food than we should. We all fall prey to credit cards. So it stands to reason that if one of us can find a way to save/give money away… the rest of us might be able to do the same.
So my tip for the day is that we all look into the Bank of America program, Keep the Change. (More on the program over here if you’re a business-minded person)
Basically, this program rounds up your debit purchases, and drops the extra pennies from each transaction into a savings account. So like, if you spend 88 cents on a candy bar, your bank will round up, and deposit 12 cents into your savings account.
Since you can have multiple savings accounts, there no reason you can’t designate one of them as your “charity” account and route your “change” to that account specifically. Then, you’ll save money automatically, and at the edn of each month, or year, or whatever… you can decide how you want to donate your charity.
I’ll admit that I don’t bank at Bank of America, and it makes me feel weird to promote like this for them, but it’s an idea…
Before I switch, I’ll go talk to my bank and see if there’s anything like this in the works… but if not… this might be worth the “change.”
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